When I opened the door, my uncle's grandson took her to the back of the house and said he would go down the road.
A river that still shines with cold light is slowly flowing, with continuous willow trees on both sides and Husheng's rapeseed fields.
They stood on the wide side, and Zhang Ni felt that she was called to step on the land in the cool spring breeze, follow the rapeseed field, and go deeper into the peach blossoms and tender willows on the roadside, and take a look at the infinite vitality in the vegetable garden.
Following the route of childhood, she stayed in the changing river until dusk every year. It was not until her grandmother or grandfather brought up the stick that she reluctantly dragged her completely soaked cloth shoes, and three or five small fish fry from the vegetable leaves.
The stick has never fallen. Now, it has probably become a crutch in my grandmother's hand or a thin willow in front of my grandfather's grave.
She pulled her brother's younger daughter who was over three years old and didn't have to climb the hills as hard as before. It was easy to walk on the platform steps. The three older children were like wild horses that had run away from their reins, staring at the pool of water and heading straight forth.
"Xiaoyue, you can't go play in the water."
She shouted loudly to the backs of the three children, without any of them turning around. Instead, the little girl in her hand tried hard to take off her hand, trying her best to keep up with her brother and sister who had gone away.
In the gap between the spring breeze, the spring light is infinitely warm, and the heat comes back in an instant. Zhang Ni took the child's hand and ran with her, crossed the road she had just arrived, and completely integrated into the sea of rapeseed flowers. Flowers, butterflies, bees and small insects in close proximity were crawling all over the garden.
In the eyes of children, the magic of water naturally exceeds that of flowers. The three children had disappeared at the end of the sea of flowers and plunged into the river bank, only laughter kept coming. Before she could take out her cell phone and record the moment that made her heart burst out for the moment, she ran towards her three children.
Standing on the edge of the rapeseed sea and looking back at my grandmother’s small village, it was exactly the same as what I saw close up, all of which were small buildings made of reinforced concrete. Wait, there is also a tile house hidden in the jungle. She remembered that it was Hu Sheng’s home, located at the top of the village. The cyan tiles are black, and the white lime is also colored, almost blending with the forest.
The villagers longed for the flat land and moved down little by little, and the houses were almost built into the riverbed. Opening the door is a good scenery, but in the rotation of the four seasons, only in spring can I have the honor to quickly turn the spring in my hometown and put all the scenery in my heart. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we have to go to a flatter and busier city.
Building a house not only costs the family’s savings, but also owes more than 100,000 foreign debts to each family. My uncle's family is no exception. My second cousin has already gone to work in the city after the New Year, and my cousin is still hesitating to go to Jiangnan or Guangzhou.
Her family also owed more than 200,000 foreign debt, but it was because of her terminally ill father.
Her eyes looked along the jungle, and there were large open spaces on both sides, probably the vegetable garden that my brother mentioned. A corner of the jungle reveals a corner of the room below. Suddenly, she saw a tall figure standing on the low wall with her hands on the pergola. Looking at her too.
Zhang Ni couldn't tell whether it was Hu Sheng or his second brother. In my memory, his eldest brother was very fat and it wouldn't be his.
"Aunt, aunt, come quickly. My cousin caught the fish."
She turned around, and the little happiness of the child also ignited her. The little niece has already met with three older children, and only she is still on the edge of the sea of flowers.
The children were so fast that they had already made the trap and locked up a small fish in the small pond.
"Wait for an hour, you can take it home and fry it. It would be great if Uncle Hu Sheng was there. He is a master of fish catching. Follow him and you will definitely have half a bucket."
The eldest uncle's grandson said to her happily.
Hu Sheng, this name has entered my mind for the second time today.
"Is it the one that my aunt beats with a stick?"
Xiaoyue must have not understood what her father said when she was in the car. It sounded like it was my aunt who beat Hu Sheng. The two children of my uncle's family smiled inexplicably, but looking at the young aunt was meaningful and she kept laughing.
"Look, he is here, Uncle Hu Sheng, come and catch fish for us."
The eldest uncle's eldest grandson immediately shouted excitedly, and the other three children also began to be happy, as if they were welcoming some big shot.
Zhang Ni put on a smile and turned around. She saw a tall guy standing where she had just stood with his head down, with a girl-like smile on her face, which looked as good as ever.
"The water is so cold, I can't go down the river. I'm going home to play."
His eyes turned over Zhang Ni and turned to several children, ignoring Zhang Ni's smile. Zhang Ni lowered her head, turned around, walked towards her little niece a little embarrassedly, pulled up the child who was playing with the sand, and gently patted the dust on her body. Looking at the three children, their shoes were wet to varying degrees. She asked them to walk away from the river bank so that they could dry their shoes. No one responded, and the two children of my uncle's family turned around and ran towards Hu Sheng. Begging him to help catch fish together.
"Okay, you follow me to the field to pull weeds. I'll catch fish for you after pulling it out, okay?"
Hearing this response, the two grandsons of my uncle's family ran towards the ridge of the field happily, and followed the tall man into the rapeseed field. Zhang Ni took her brother's two daughters to sit on a sunny stone slab, playing with the sand. Not far away, the sounds from the rapeseed field kept coming, and she listened very attentively.
I felt a little depressed. Did he not remember himself, or was embarrassed. Maybe it was the latter. He always looked so shy, but when he was a child, the two of them often played together. The grandparents did not live with them at home, and the brother and sister were not taken care of, so the mother sent her to her grandmother's house. She spent most of her childhood at her grandmother's house. Most of the time they stayed together to help herd sheep and mow grass and do farm work. He always protected her. When he was fierce, he was also a little man, shouting loudly that he would not bully his sister, like a treasure of his world.
Later, she went to college, but he failed the exam, so he fulfilled his obligations and took on the responsibility of supporting his parents in his old age when he went home.
Zhang Ni remembered that during the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, she met him on the streets of the county town. She said she was going to go to the provincial capital to go to school, and told him that if she got there, she would go see her.
"You are a student, I am a farmer, how can you go?"
He smiled bitterly and left. Take it seriously, she never saw him again, and she never even thought of him. She understood that the sentence was that the two people had been separated from each other and she deeply agreed with it.